http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8tf02xc Online items available Inventory of the Papers of J. Michael Bishop MSS.2007.21 Kelsi Evans and Edith Escobedo University of California, San Francisco Archives & Special Collections 2016 & 2020 530 Parnassus Ave Room 524 San Francisco, CA 94143-0840 [email protected] URL: http://www.library.ucsf.edu/collections/archives Inventory of the Papers of J. MSS.2007.215 1 Michael Bishop MSS.2007.21 Contributing Institution: University of California, San Francisco Archives & Special Collections Title: J. Michael Bishop papers Creator: Bishop, J. Michael Identifier/Call Number: MSS.2007.21 Identifier/Call Number: 5 Physical Description: 142 Linear Feet(112 cartons, 2 boxes, 1 over-sized box, 1 flat file drawer) Date (inclusive): 1958-2016 Abstract: Contains the laboratory research notebooks and professional papers of Nobel Prize-winning scientist and UCSF professor and chancellor, Dr. J. Michael Bishop, dated 1960-2008. Material relates to microbiology and Bishop's work on cancer and genetics. Language of Material: English . Preferred Citation J. Michael Bishop papers, MSS 2007-21. Archives and Special Collections, University of California, San Francisco. Conditions Governing Access Collection is open for research. The UCSF Archives and Special Collections policy places access restrictions on material with privacy issues for a specific time period from the date of creation. Restrictions are noted at the series level. This collection will be reviewed for sensitive content upon request. Contact the UCSF Archivist for information on access to restricted files. Publication Rights Copyright has not been assigned to the Library and Center for Knowledge Management. All requests for permission to publish or quote from material must be submitted in writing to the UCSF Archivist. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Library and Center for Knowledge Management as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher. Acquisition Information The collection was donated to the UCSF Archives in 2007 by Grace Stauffer, a staff member of UCSF and J. Michael Bishop. Additional material donated by J. Michael Bishop in 2009. Exhibit files added to the collection in 2015. Biographical Information J. Michael Bishop was born February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania. He completed his undergraduate degree at Gettysburg College, majoring in chemistry, and eventually chose medicine as a career. He entered Harvard Medical School, became interested in basic science, and began research in animal virology, where he "learned that the viruses of animal cells were ripe for study with the tools of molecular biology." He received his M.D. in 1962, and in the next two years he completed his internship and residency at Massachusetts General Hospital. In 1964 he was appointed postdoctoral fellow in the Research Associate Training Program at the National Institutes of Health. At NIH he pursued virology research with his mentor, Leon Levintow, and spent a year doing research in Hamburg, Germany. He then chose to accept a faculty position at UCSF, he recalls, "because the opportunities seemed so much greater: I would have been a mere embellishment on the East Cost; I was genuinely needed at San Francisco." He arrived at UCSF in 1968, hired as an assistant professor of microbiology and immunology and continued work in virology with Leon Levintow, who had joined the UCSF faculty two years earlier. Bishop became a full professor in 1972, and in 1981 was appointed director of the G. W. Hooper Research Foundation. In the mid 1980s he also became director of the Program in Biological Sciences (PIBS), a pathbreaking interdisciplinary program in graduate education. As he developed his research program, Bishop began to study retroviruses, and utilized reverse transcriptase to explore viral DNA. In 1970, Harold E. Varmus joined Bishop as a postdoctoral fellow, and Bishop recalls, "Our relationship evolved rapidly to one of coequals, and the result was surely greater than the sum of the two parts." For the next two decades Bishop and Varmus identified and clarified the process of how Rous sarcoma virus transforms normal cellular genes (proto-oncogenes) into cancer genes (oncogenes). In 1989, Bishop and Varmus were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that growth regulating genes in normal cells can malfunction and initiate the abnormal growth processes of cancer. Bishop is the recipient of numerous awards in addition to the Nobel Prize, including the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Biomedical Research and the American Cancer Society National Medal of Honor. In 2003, he was awarded the National Medal of Science. On July 1, 1998, J. Michael Bishop became eighth chancellor of UCSF, and presided over what would become the largest academic biomedical expansion in the nation-the creation of the UCSF Mission Bay campus. Mission Bay formally opened in 2003 and by 2008 included four research buildings (Genentech Hall, Rock Hall, Byers Hall, the Diller Cancer Research Inventory of the Papers of J. MSS.2007.215 2 Michael Bishop MSS.2007.21 Building), and the William J. Rutter Center. Bishop retired as UCSF Chancellor in August 2009, with the distinction of longest term of service in that office. Scope and Contents The collection contains the laboratory research notebooks and professional papers of Nobel Prize-winning scientist and UCSF professor and chancellor, Dr. J. Michael Bishop. Material relates to his work on cancer, retroviruses, and oncogenes, and includes drafts of his autobiographical book, How to Win the Nobel Prize: An Unexpected Life in Science. Also included are publication records including article drafts, reprints, and related correspondence, administrative records, clippings, teaching materials, Nobel Prize medals, photographs, and material from an exhibit about Bishop. Arrangement The collection is arranged in twelve series: Series I. Writings and publication files; Series II. Teaching files; Series III. Laboratory research notebooks and binders; Series IV. Working files; Series V. Scrapbook and artifact; Series VI. Exhibit files; Series VII. Committee files; Series VIII. Correspondence; IX. Postdoctoral files; X. Meetings and Travel files; XI. Lectures and Remarks; XII. Photographs, Slides, and Audio/Visual Material. Accruals Additional accruals are expected. Subjects and Indexing Terms University of California, San Francisco Cancer -- Research Nobel Prizes Oncogenes Microbiology Immunology Varmus, Harold cartons 1-8, Writings and publication files 1594 1965-2016 box 1, carton 32, Language of Material: English. folder 13, Scope and Contents carton 45, Series contains article and book drafts, reprints, correspondence with coauthors, scientists, folders 3-14, 24, and journals, manuscript reviews, research notes and data, and photographs and figures carton 52, related to Bishop's extensive publication history. Some conference lectures and speeches folders 1-12, also included. Original folder order and titles have been maintained when possible. Many of cartons 53-60, the files are named according to journal title or lead author. carton 61, folders 2-23, carton 63, folders 55-70, carton 70, folders 68-69, carton 72, folder 38, carton 75, folders 10-27, carton 93, folders 20-24, carton 104, folders 14-27, carton 105, folders 1-2 box 1, folder 1 Ron's mss: 5' p19 sequence undated box 1, folder 2 Cold Spring Harbor undated box 1, folder 3 Thomas J. Gonda - cloning c-myb 1982 Inventory of the Papers of J. MSS.2007.215 3 Michael Bishop MSS.2007.21 Writings and publication files 15941965-2016 "The Book and Babel" Unpublished Book box 1, folder 7 UCSF Nobel Laureates: Elizabeth Blackburn, Stanley Prusiner, J. Michael Bishop, Harold Varmus 2011 Scope and Contents University Development and Alumni Relations book produced by Leilynne Fong, Senior Director, UCSF National and International Development, with Chinese translation by Jianping (Tom) Du, UC Berkeley. carton 1, folder 1 Cell review 1980-1981 carton 1, Hermann Oppermann - heat shock 1979-1981 folders 2-3 carton 1, folder 4 Arthur Levinson - pp60src domains 1981 carton 1, Bjorn Vennstrom - molecular cloning 1980-1981 folders 5-7 carton 1, folder 8 National Cancer Institute - cancer genes 1980 carton 1, folder 9 Aging and cancer 1980-1981 carton 1, folder 10 Bruce Alberts 1979-1981 carton 1, folder 11 Stephen Hughes - provirus sequence 1980-1981 carton 1, folder 12 Barbara Baker 1981 carton 1, folder 13 Perry B. Hackett undated carton 1, folder 14 Richard Parker 1981 carton 1, folder 15 Norman Ross 1981 carton 1, folder 16 New Scientist 1981 carton 1, folder 17 Rous sarcoma virus 1974-1975 carton 1, Writings and publications 1981 folders 18-19 carton 1, Cold Spring Harbor - chapter 9 1980-1982 folders 20-24 carton 1, folder 25 Figures - RD 114 and Squaw Valley undated carton 1, folder 26 Figures - Houston, Actino, and Steenbock undated carton 1, folder 27 Figures undated carton 2, Scientific American - Oncogenes 1981-1982 folders 1-3 carton 2, folder 4 Yale University Press 1982 carton 2, folder 5 UCSF Magazine 1979 carton 2, folder 6 Writings and publications 1980-1984 carton 2, folder 7 Possible future manuscript notes undated carton 2, folder 8 Primer fragments binding and priming undated carton 2, folder 9 Stephen Hughes - pheasants undated carton 2, folder 10 Ron Swanstrom 1980-1981 carton 2, folder 11 RAV-0 mapping undated carton